Shade-holder.



No. 745,737. PATENTED DEC. 1, 1903 H. J. PETERS.

SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 18, 1903.

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,EzugrZJfZf UNITED STATES Patented December 1, 1903.

HOi/VARD J. PETERS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHADE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 745,737, dated December 1, 1903.

Application filed April 18 1903.

To all whom it Wtay concern.-

Be it known that I, HOWARD J. PETERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Shade-Holder's, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to shadeholders used in connection with incandescent electric lights.

My primary object is to provide a shadeholder of this character of simple and inexpensive construction employing improved means for adjustable connection with the shade.

The improved device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a front plan view of my shade-holder; Fig. 2, a rear plan View of the same; and Fig. 3, asectional view of the same, taken, as indicated, at line 3 of Fig. 1.

The device comprises in the preferred embodiment a split-ring-form socket-clamp A, having a size-adjusting screw a, two radial arms 0. a at a little less than one hundred and eighty degrees apart, and a shade-clamping ring A, having retaining-lugs a and equipped with a size adjusting screw a. With the exception of the screws the parts are formed integrally with each other, being stamped from sheet metal. Preferably one edge of the arm a is in diametrical alinement with the axis of the arm ct, and lugs 19 b are provided adjacent to said edge and internally threaded to receive the screws. This con- Serial No. 153,176. (No model.)

struction affords freely-yielding parallel halfrings 6 b equipped at their free extremities with perforate lugs 1) b respectively, corresponding with the lugs b b. The ring A has the usual forwardly-projecting flange 0, forming a socket for the base of the shade or globe, and the lugs a project radially inwardly from the front edge of said flange.

It now will be understood that the lugs a. take the place of the usual shade-holding screws, a single adjustment serving to secure the shade in its clamping-ring.

The shade-holder is clamped to the lampsocket in the usual manner.

The device can be manufactured at a much less cost than the holders now in common use, is neat in appearance, and obviously renders the work of adjusting a shade or globe much less laborious and more safe than heretofore.

What I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A shade-holder, comprisinga socket-clamping ring, arms projecting therefrom and formed integrally therewith, a split shadeclam ping ring carried by said arms and formed integrally therewith and equipped with integrally-formed retaining-lugs, and a size-adjusting screw for the shade-clamping ring, for the purpose set forth.

HOWARD J. PETERS.

In presence of- L. HEIsLAR, WALTER N. WINBERG. 

